Tom Mix Western (1948 Fawcett) comic books 1951-1953

Silent-movie cowboy Tom Mix became a pop-culture icon with his 1940s radio show and this tie-in comic. When Tom notices a rich man's baggage contains the gear of an impoverished prospector, he realizes something is amiss. Rod despairs that he's a "jinx" because fires occur at every business that he works, but Tom suspects shenanigans. The sheriff hires a bloodhound trainer to track a killer, but the trainer IS the killer, and uses his dogs to frame Tom for the murder! That one gets points for originality. Plus a vintage ad for View-Master, featuring Roy Rogers, Hopalong Cassidy, Gene Autry, The Cisco Kid and Pancho. The Poor Rich Men!; Roundup Time With Tom Mix; Tumbleweed Jr.: The Mischief Maker!; Andy and Bandy; Fightin' Forbes: Wagon Wheels; The Man Fire Followed!; The Mystery of the Empty Rowboat!; The Car-Rear Men; Cowboy Cal; Saddlehead; The Trail of the Bloodhounds. 48 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Silent-movie cowboy Tom Mix became a pop-culture icon with his 1940s radio show and this tie-in comic. In a three-part story, a cryptic message thrown from the window of a speeding train leads Tom on a strange adventure. He tracks the mysterious "Miss Scarlet" to passenger Sally Rodgers. But Sally is in danger from outlaws, and now Tom is too. At one point, Tom calls the bad guys "ornery jugheads." The Mystery of Miss Scarlet; Roundup Time With Tom Mix; Tumbleweed Jr.: The Olympian!; Trapped!; Fightin' Forbes: Government Agent; Sam the Sheriff: The Give-A-Way!; The Showdown; Winning Winters. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Stories and art by Carl Pfeufer and others. Silent-movie cowboy Tom Mix became a pop-culture icon with his 1940s radio show and this tie-in comic. Lost in a strange town, Tom suddenly finds himself pursued by both lawmen and outlaws. A wealthy rancher gives two nephews a thousand dollars and tells them to invest it, with the winner getting the ranch in his will. When outlaws threaten to silence the town newspaper, Tom gets particularly irate. Plus a vintage ad for Tom Mix merch in exchange for Ralston-Purina box tops, including glow-in-the-dark spurs and belt. The Hills Beyond; Roundup Time With Tom Mix; Tumbleweed Jr.: The Donkey's Tail; Lemuel and Lumpkin; Fightin' Forbes: The Green Coyote; The Betrayal; Red Eagle: The Exploding Land; The Car-Rear Men; Cowboy Cal; Saddlehead; The Free Press. 48 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

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Stories and art by Carl Pfeufer and others. Silent-movie cowboy Tom Mix became a pop-culture icon with his 1940s radio show and this tie-in comic. When Tom investigates the dead-letter office for missing money, he discovers his own death notice in the mail. A recluse invites Tom into his remote home, which is a deathtrap filled with deadly snakes. Outlaws capture Tom and attempt to auction him off to the highest bidder. Pistol Packing Pattie gets the last word once again. The Great Mail Mystery; Roundup Time With Tom Mix; Tumbleweed Jr.: Arrow Auction; Dick and Dan; Fightin' Forbes: Forbes Gets a Warning; Never Wory Neyers; The Human Viper; Round Man Rollins and Rolly; The Fatal Auction; Pistol Packing Pattie; Cowboy Cal; Saddlehead; The Face of the Mountain. 48 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Silent-movie cowboy Tom Mix became a pop-culture icon with his 1940s radio show and this tie-in comic. In a three-part story, Tom is caught between Brack Dillon, one of the West's most feared badmen, and Dirk, a trigger-happy desperado itching to kill Dillon for the $5000 reward. Tom and his horse Tony must escape a boulder trap set by his rival. Then he must find a way to deal with the survivor after Dirk and Dillon have a shootout. Treachery's Reward: Part One, The Ditch Of Death; Roundup Time With Tom Mix; Tumbleweed Jr.: The Time Saver; Cowboy Cal; Saddlehead; Part Two, The Jail Break; Trapped!; Fightin' Forbes: Death But No Clues; Part Three, The Double Cross. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Stories and art by Carl Pfeufer and others. Silent-movie cowboy Tom Mix became a pop-culture icon with his 1940s radio show and this tie-in comic. Tom must figure out what superhuman being could have bent solid iron bars and broken into the Dobie Bank. Van Kurt's gang of "landgrabbers" is burning settlers' homes, to force them into selling their land. Tom has a vivid dream of coming across a stagecoach robbery, but no one on the stage remembers a robbery. Plus a vintage ad for View-Master, featuring Roy Rogers, Hopalong Cassidy, Gene Autry, The Cisco Kid and Pancho. The Dobie Terror; Roundup Time With Tom Mix; Tumbleweed Jr.: The Magic Moccasins; The Ride to Disaster; Fightin' Forbes: Secret Message; Bullets of Hate; The Longhorn Killer; Cowboy Cal; The Dream of Death. 48 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Silent-movie cowboy Tom Mix became a pop-culture icon with his 1940s radio show and this tie-in comic. When a hundred-year-old land deed is destroyed, outlaws set a dangerous plan into motion. A mastermind thinks he's got a foolproof robbery plan, as his cohorts never speak or meet until it's time for the crime. Tom witnesses a murder, then tries to figure out why the victim is a Native American dressed in ill-fitting cowboy garb. The One Hundred Year Old Deed; Roundup Time With Tom Mix; Tumbleweed Jr. Gets His Goat; Cowboy Cal; Saddlehead; The Perfect Set-Up; Fightin' Forbes: Warning to Snoopers; The Indian in the Cowboy Suit. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Silent-movie cowboy Tom Mix became a pop-culture icon with his 1940s radio show and this tie-in comic. Tom investigates house robberies and discovers that the burglar is entering the houses inside rolled-up carpets, a new twist if ever there was one. Tom volunteers to rescue a kid's toy from a hurricane-swept ghost town, and finds danger and adventure. Tom tries to figure out how pelts are being stolen from a fur shop without a sign of breaking and entering. The Baffling Robberies; The Promise!; Tumbleweed Jr.: The Big Game Hunter!; Saddlehead; Fightin' Forbes: Barrel Bank; The Vanishing Skins! 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Stories and art by Carl Pfeufer and others. Silent-movie cowboy Tom Mix became a pop-culture icon with his 1940s radio show and this tie-in comic. In a three-part story, Tom gets wind of a letter that can prove a powerful bandit leader is in cahoots with the town mayor. But the bandit and his men will stop at nothing to get that letter. Tom must escape a crossfire aimed at the rooftop where he's hiding to get the goods on the bandit king. The Secret Letter: Part 1: Costume of Death; The Promise!; Roundup Time With Tom Mix; Tumbleweed Jr.: The Mischievous Squirrel; Saddlehead; Cowboy Cal; Part 2: Trapped; Fightin' Forbes: Blackjack; Part 3: Riders on the Trail! 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Stories and art by Carl Pfeufer and others. Silent-movie cowboy Tom Mix became a pop-culture icon with his 1940s radio show and this tie-in comic. Tom becomes a newspaper reporter to help spread information, but someone doesn't want him going to press. An elderly murder victim and a few lines on a fire-scorched piece of paper lead Tom to the deadly Masked Evil. Plus an edu-comic on nature with nice mountain lion art. And a vintage ad for Tom Mix merch in exchange for Ralston-Purina box tops, including glow-in-the-dark spurs and belt. The Prairie Blackmail; Roundup Time With Tom Mix; Tumbleweed Jr.: Bowling Blues; Saddlehead; Cowboy Cal; Fightin' Forbes: Last Gamble; The Masked Evil. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Silent-movie cowboy Tom Mix became a pop-culture icon with his 1940s radio show and this tie-in comic. The town of Dobie is chosen for the site of a new federal arsenal, but a local pyromaniac threatens both the arsenal and the town. Tom inspires disabled Slim to believe in his own power and determination. A crooked ranch hand thinks a party is the perfect chance for a little safecracking, but by the time Tom Mix finds him, it's turned to murder. And a vintage ad for Tom Mix merch in exchange for Ralston-Purina box tops, including glow-in-the-dark spurs and belt. The Road Back; Roundup Time With Tom Mix; Firebrands of Doom; Small Town Smalley; Tumbleweed Jr.: A Log Jam; Saddlehead; Cowboy Cal; Fightin' Forbes: Badman Siege; The Unexpected Visit. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Stories and art by Carl Pfeufer and others. Silent-movie cowboy Tom Mix became a pop-culture icon with his 1940s radio show and this tie-in comic. In a three-part story, Tom must ride fast to protect the township when a hurricane strikes. In an action-packed sequence, he takes to a boat in raging floodwaters, then must abandon ship when a lightning strike sets the boat on fire. Then he must avoid a rockslide to warn the town that the dam is collapsing! And a vintage ad for Tom Mix merch in exchange for Ralston-Purina box tops, including glow-in-the-dark spurs and belt. The Rampaging Elements: Part 1: Death Island; Roundup Time With Tom Mix; Part 2: Hazardous Journey; Hoghead Harry; Tumbleweed Jr.: Magic in the Air; Saddlehead; Cowboy Cal; Fightin' Forbes: Necktie Party; Part 3: Passage to Safety; Pinto Pete; Evers the Englishman. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Stories and art by Carl Pfeufer and others. Silent-movie cowboy Tom Mix became a pop-culture icon with his 1940s radio show and this tie-in comic. Tom is determined to track down the Missing Killer, and five years later, he finally gets his chance. In another story, an errant pair of eyeglasses gives Tom the clue to identifying a killer. An undertaker claims he killed the fugitive robber Hoot Mondy - but then why is his coffin filled with stolen gold? And a vintage ad for Tom Mix merch in exchange for Ralston-Purina box tops, including glow-in-the-dark spurs and belt. The Missing Killer!; Roundup Time With Tom Mix; Blind Date with Death!; Tumbleweed Jr.: His Infuriating Friend!; Saddlehead; Cowboy Cal; Fightin' Forbes: Gold Cache; The Golden Double Cross. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

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Stories and art by Carl Pfeufer and others. Silent-movie cowboy Tom Mix became a pop-culture icon with his 1940s radio show and this tie-in comic. In a two-part story, Tom investigates robberies of pack trains in the Pecos Valley. But the murder of the local sheriff points to an unlikely suspect. Tom pursues the ruthless killers into the Garnett Valley. And a vintage ad for Mark Trail magazine, a boys' magazine featuring the popular comic-strip naturalist. The Pack Train Mystery: Chapter 1: Shots in the Night; Roundup Time With Tom Mix; Chapter 2: A Killer Stalks the Night!; Tumbleweed Jr.: Rolling Along; Saddlehead; Cowboy Cal; Fightin' Forbes: Teaching Toughy; The Red Beard Bandit. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

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Stories and art by Carl Pfeufer and others. Silent-movie cowboy Tom Mix became a pop-culture icon with his 1940s radio show and this tie-in comic. In a three-part story, Tom discovers the neighboring town of Pine Creek Hollow is being torn apart by a range war. Captured, Tom can only hope to escape and reach the Bull Run ranch, and its nearby water hole, before the bad guys do. In desperation, Tom sends a stampede directly at the ranch house. Range War Part 1: The Pine Creek Hollow Route; Roundup Time With Tom Mix; Part 2: Death Chasm!; Tumbleweed Jr.: The Birthday Present; Saddlehead; Cowboy Cal; Fightin' Forbes: Six Aces; Pinto Pete; Part 3: The Battle. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

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Stories and art by Carl Pfeufer and others. Silent-movie cowboy Tom Mix became a pop-culture icon with his 1940s radio show and this tie-in comic. Tom tries to convince the owner of deadly Earthquake Pass to let the town build a safer road through his property. Tom joins the search for a jeweled treasure hidden somewhere in the Dobie Caves. The bored editor of Dobie's newspaper, the "Daily Bugle," creates a dangerous rumor to spice up a slow news day. Death Pass of Earthquake Hills; Roundup Time With Tom Mix; Body Guard to Danger!; Tumbleweed Jr.: The Dangerous Race; Buff's Vacation; Fightin' Forbes: Big Mike; Fugitive to Injustice. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Stories and art by Carl Pfeufer and others. Silent-movie cowboy Tom Mix became a pop-culture icon with his 1940s radio show and this tie-in comic. The Dexter Brothers recruit a new gang by starting a barroom brawl in the Black Cat Tavern, in a story featuring some hilarious "1960s Batman"-style fight scenes. In the second part of a two-part story, a blow to the head gives Tom amnesia, and he is recruited into the Dexter Brothers Gang. In another story, a mysterious figure with a walrus mustache wants the famous landscape painting by artist "Al Fresco" that is on loan to Dobie's art museum. The Black Void Part 1: Dangerous Encounter; Roundup Time With Tom Mix; Jeeter; Part 2: Fight for Survival; Tumbleweed Jr.: The Dangerous Race; Saddlehead; Cowboy Cal; Fightin' Forbes: Flying Fists; Gopher-Face; The Missing Countryside. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Silent-movie cowboy Tom Mix became a pop-culture icon with his 1940s radio show and this tie-in comic. In a three-part story, the town of Huckster Flats can't keep a sheriff because of the Rattler's deadly outlaw gang. When Tom volunteers to be the new sheriff, he finds himself targeted by a posse who thinks Tom is part of the gang. Then he sets out to discover the Rattler's true identity. Tom Mix and the Rattler! Part 1: Invitation to Death!; Roundup Time With Tom Mix; Part 2: The Trail of the Dried Beans; Tumbleweed Jr.: The Prize Winner; Saddlehead; Cowboy Cal; Fightin' Forbes: Wooden Witnesses; Part 3: The Empty Closet! 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

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Silent-movie cowboy Tom Mix became a pop-culture icon with his 1940s radio show and this tie-in comic. When a dispute over a watering hole leads to murder, a chalk "X" on a coat points Tom Mix to the killer, much like in the classic movie "M." Outlaw Rex realizes he can seize the Harris family farm for himself because a proper deed was never filed on it. Trying to evade Tom Mix, a killer hides out in an ornamental suit of armor, leading to a clanking cowboy-knight fight. The Sign of the Killer; Roundup Time With Tom Mix; The Unrecorded Deed; Tumbleweed Jr.: The Race; Cactus Brain; Saddlehead; Cowboy Cal; Fightin' Forbes: Frame-Up; The Treasure of Doom. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

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Silent-movie cowboy Tom Mix became a pop-culture icon with his 1940s radio show and this tie-in comic. A con man swindles a small fortune by claiming to be Tom Mix's brother, but his telltale spurs give him away. A ranch hand sees a dispute between Tom and his cranky neighbor as the perfect opportunity to commit robbery-murder and frame Tom for it. Tom races to free a witness captured by two outlaws before he can put them away. The Deadly Spurs; The Murderers' Quest; The Trial of Tom Mix; Tumbleweed Jr.: The Race; Jeeter; Saddlehead; Cowboy Cal; Fightin' Forbes: Dead Man's Tale; Hoghead Harry. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

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Stories and art by Carl Pfeufer and Chad Grothkropf. Silent-movie cowboy Tom Mix became a pop-culture icon with his 1940s radio show and this tie-in comic. Tom must run for his life when he comes into possession of a camera that reveals the identities of the Red Mask Gang. Tom escorts a valuable race horse to its new owner, so outlaws enlist the aid of a man who hates Tom Mix. Tom tracks the outlaws who are smuggling "dope" into Dobie. Plus a vintage ad for a "jet glow" decoder belt and "cosmic smoke" ray gun based on TV's Space Patrol. The Deadly Camera; Double Motive Revenge; Tumbleweed Jr.: The Race; Jeeter; Saddlehead; Cowboy Cal; Fightin' Forbes: Branding Iron; Rawhide Hotchkiss: The Bum Steer; The Cursed Dobie Dope Ring. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Stories and art by Carl Pfeufer and others. Silent-movie cowboy Tom Mix became a pop-culture icon with his 1940s radio show and this tie-in comic. In a two-part story, Tom Mix's new neighbor is injured by robbers. Tom pursues them and falls into a trap they have rigged under a boulder. Target For Plunder, Chapter 1: The Sign of the Jinx; Chapter 2: The Doomed Exhibition; Jeeter: Silence Is Golden; Mule Ears; Cowboy Cal; Fightin' Forbes: Threat and Promise; Brainy Buster; Dimwit Diddle; The Open Safe. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Stories and art by Carl Pfeufer and others. Silent-movie cowboy Tom Mix became a pop-culture icon with his 1940s radio show and this tie-in comic. In a two-part story, Tom tracks the serial killer known as the Mad Killer of the Hills, who kills not for money but for the thrill of it. Tom pursues him deep into the desert, where it comes down to a hand-to-hand struggle to the death. Outlaws target Tom when they learn he's holding on to a prospector's priceless diamond. Plus a vintage ad for a "jet glow" decoder belt and "cosmic smoke" ray gun based on TV's Space Patrol. The Mad Killer of the Hills, Chapter 1: The Trail of the Dead; Chapter 2: The Sip of Death; Jeeter: The Expected Journey; Cowboy Cal; Saddlehead; Fightin' Forbes: Dangerous Clud; Brainy Buster; The Double-Dealing Diamond Desperadoes. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

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Stories and art by Carl Pfeufer and others. Silent-movie cowboy Tom Mix became a pop-culture icon with his 1940s radio show and this tie-in comic. In a two-part story, a fugitive killer takes over a Forest Ranger station. But when a fire breaks out, the forest is unprotected, and Tom must battle a disaster in the making as well as find the killer. In another story, Tom races to deliver a vaccine to a plague-infected area, but outlaws seeing him think he must be carrying valuables. The End of the Trail, Part I: Havoc in the Timber Woods; Cowboy Cal; Saddlehead; Part II: The Blazing Inferno; Trapped!; Jeeter and His Talking Horse Preposterous: A Night Time Fable; Fightin' Forbes: Brave Man; Tom Mix and the Package of Doom. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Silent-movie cowboy Tom Mix became a pop-culture icon with his 1940s radio show and this tie-in comic. When rustled cattle vanish without a trace, the cowboys suspect ghosts, but Tom's not so sure. In a two-part story, Tom realizes that outlaws are using his own ranch as a place to store stolen weapons, because who would suspect Tom Mix's ranch? Tom races to rescue a professor who has been abducted by spies. Unlucky Harry; The Dobie Spy Scare; Saddlehead; Pinto Pete; The Rustler's Ghost; Lost In the Night: Chapter 1: The Hide-Out!; Jeeter and His Talking Horse Preposterous: Batter, Butter or Butter Batter; Chapter 2: The Mountain Escapade. Final issue of the series. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.